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Too Much / Too Little Money
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2012
This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard because you can always err both by doing too little of something but [...] Read more
Becoming a Manager
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2012
Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my own experience with the challenge of going from being an individual contributor to being [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (Objects)
Albert Wenger – Oct 2, 2012
This is the fifth post on Data Structures as part of my long Tech Tuesday series on programming. And today we finally make it to a structure known as an object. There is a whole literature on so-called object oriented [...] Read more
Free Textbooks from California (Edu Hacks)
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2012
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post titled “Hacking Textbooks - We Need It” where I pointed out that college textbooks are a $7B annual market in the US alone. I was therefore thrilled to see that [...] Read more
Benefit Corporation Update
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2012
Since I first wrote about the Benefit Corporation several great things have happened, including New York State passing legislation and Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. Since most venture backed companies are incorporated in Delaware, it would be terrific to [...] Read more
Scylla and Charybdis: Why Startups are Hard
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2012
Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because there are great discussions about a far ranging set of topics from hiring [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (JSON)
Albert Wenger – Sep 25, 2012
In today’s Tech Tuesday we are continuing our romp through Data Structures as part of the ongoing series on programming by looking at JSON. Now technically JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is not a data structure but a [...] Read more
Public Markets Asset Allocation
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2012
Over the years I have tried a number of different financial advisors but have never been particularly happy. In particular, I have found that most of them seemed to ignore long term trends that I believe in and seemed to [...] Read more
Ask Patents: Peer Progressive Agenda At Work
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2012
Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. [...] Read more